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Originally Posted by Frownland
That seems like a very arbitrary way to define music. We have to rule out Steely Dan as music if these are the parameters.
It is also very possible to perform it without the audience. The audience isn't the only thing making sounds in the world. Stop and listen for thirty seconds and I assure you that you'll hear something.
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That goes against the nature of the intention behind the piece, and since according to you intention is all you need for it to be music, that argument doesn't hold up. I don't think, it's arbitrary silence is only music when it's part of a larger piece, unless you also believe that nothing is something (which I do not).
Idk Steely Dan, sorry.
Edit: Unless I misunderstood (I never really got involved in this discussion), isn't the intention behind 433 for the audience to create it's own music via ambient sounds like pamphlet folding, coughing, readjusting in their seat?